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Can tight muscles in shoulders and back cause chest pain?
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chest pain: Musculoskeletal causes can be associated with chest pain especially intercostal muscle spasm. The pains of this type are exacerbated by breathing motions of the chest wall.
Answered 11/24/2018
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